Anton (Ton) Alberts (6 July 1927 – 16 August 1999) was a Dutch architect best known for designing theING Bank (1982) in theBijlmer district of Amsterdam and the Gas Corporation headquarters inGroningen.
Alberts was involved withSituationist International before being expelled in 1960. He had been involved with fellow SituationistsConstant andHar Oudejans in setting up a labyrinth in theStedelijk Museum ofAmsterdam, but the project fell apart amidst acrimony. Officially, he was expelled for designing churches, althoughAsger Jorn relates the expulsion more to the "Amsterdam affair".
In 1963 he founded the firm Alberts and Van Huut withMax van Huut, guided by the principles oforganic architecture. His work also has its roots in theanthroposophical architecture ofRudolf Steiner.[1]
Alberts offered to work for free on the Peace Parks inBosnia and Herzegovina but was only able to create sketches before he died, aged 72, inAmsterdam. Still, by Albert's sketches thePeace Flame House, a community centre, was built in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a gift byPeace Flame Foundation Netherlands to this former war-ravaged community.
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